Qingming is one of the twenty-four solar terms that the ancient Chinese gave to the twenty-four divisions of their year. Qingming is also one of the most important festivals in China which comes within ten days before or after April the 5^th every year.

It originated from ceremonial worship of ancient emperors’ tombs. Latter on, the practice was generally adopted by the public to pay tribute to ancestors. On that day, people visit and sweep forefather’s tomb, recalling love and memory of the late family members. Although Qingming is a festival of mourning, it does not have to be sad. Since the festival falls in spring, it is a great time for outdoor activities such as football, swinging and tree planting. Cuisine on Qingming is special. In ancient times, people did not make fire on that day so they ate prepared cold food instead. Different regions have different specialties: in northern China, folks love date cake and wheat cake while in the south, people prefer green glutinous dumpling and honeyed lotus root stuffed with rice.

In modern China, people rarely have time for this festival due to fast tempo of life. To preserve national tradition and give people more time to rest, the government made Qingming an official national holiday in 2008. The public including staff of BPOVIA love this opportunity for family and relaxation.

This year, Qingming holiday starts from April the 3^rd to 5^th, that is to say, BPOVIA will be on vacation next Monday. Should you have any problem please leave a message and we’ll handle it Tuesday. In the end, wish everyone a nice holiday!

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In virtual assistance industry, it is very likely that the less you pay for your assistant, the more it will cost you for the remedy of an unsatisfactory task. However, seldom are virtual assistance service providers ready to admit this, insisting that alluring low price and state-of-the-art service can come side by side. Uncovering some providers’ low-price tags, you’ll see how they cut costs in the following aspects:

1 venue for workplace: A lot of virtual assistants are home-based freelancers.

2 less recruitment costs: face-to-face interview might be skipped; Generally speaking, one assistant has to do multi-types of work ranging from data entry to WordPress design.

3 “thrifty” on communicational cost: they are cautious about extra expenditure generated by long phone calls and video conference.

Disadvantages caused by above factors such as project delay, failure in communication and lack of focus will generate extra cost for clients, namely, you have to spend more time in order to achieve expected results.

However, some virtual assistance service providers, like Bpovia, are dedicated to providing first-rate service rather than participating in price biding competition. Our services are better with reasonable price. We boast 3 advantages over other companies:

1 Thanks to team work and project based cooperation, we achieve higher efficiency with each one doing the task he or she is good at. For instance, VAs take care of clients; graphic designers work on innovative creation and web programmers focus on site construction and maintenance.

2 Because we work together in the office building, Bpovia is more of a well-structured company rather than a group of home-based freelancers.

3 With Skype, international phone line and video conference operating simultaneously, effective and timely communication with our clients becomes our prestigious advantage.

As the Chinese proverb goes, Cheapness bargains no fine goods; fine goods are not cheap. It is cost performance ratio that rules. And Bpovia is just the kind of provider you are looking for.

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According to Telework Exchange, “If white-collar employees who feel they could do their jobs from home began to telework twice a week, the United States could conserve 9.7 billion gallons of gasoline and save $38.2 billion a year.” These calculations are based on 50 miles round trips in vehicles getting 24 miles per gallon, with gasoline at $3.94/gallon.

In addition, you don’t pay for office expenses such as utilities, desk, chair, computer, and the office space itself.

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The following article is one of the best analysis of why Elance failed. You can read the original post here.

“Several important factors involved with their failure include: Too much competition, little service provider differentiation besides price, high service provider fees, no locality of services, ambiguous project descriptions, cheap Indians, as well as cheap Indians, and last but not least, cheap Indians.

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Elance, ODesk and Guru are trying to the “eBay of Outsourcing”. The idea is great but there are fundamental flaws in this model: Most of the bidders on those sites are typically freelancers, self employed and work at home. The reliability and quality of service are highly unpredictable. Elance, ODesk and Guru are just middlemen or marketplace so they have no control about the bidders at all.

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For 10 years, Red Herring’s editorial team has diligently surveyed entrepreneurship around the globe. Technology industry executives, investors, and observers have regarded the Red Herring 100 lists as an invaluable instrument to discover and advocate the promising startups that will lead the next wave of disruption and innovation.

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Nanjing, China (PRWEB) December 31st 2008 – BPOVIA, China’s leading Virtual Assistant Service provider, has been selected as one of this year’s Red Herring Global 200 finalists. It is another prestigious award BPOVIA get after its winning of the Red Herring 100 Asia Awards in December 2008.

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Relying on the shrewd observation to the global hi-tech industry as well as impartial and independent selection process for more than 10 years, Red Herring, which is honoured as risk investment vane, has established the absolute authority of “The Bible of Silicon Valley”.

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Where to find a suitable investment places has become a tough question for many entrepreneurs. There is a notion which is widely accepted by the investors that the factories and infrastructures should be built in developing countries, where has the massive cheap labor-force and low cost of soil rent. However, as the time goes by, especially after the 9•11, the terrorist and extremist attack has become a very essential factor for the business people to make the decision of the investment. To be sure, both Iraq and Afghanistan would not be ideal places for investment, for the anti-terrorist war is going on there. Meanwhile, the serial terrorist attacks took place in Mumbai, the largest city-port in India, 27th Nov. 2008, monitored us even the places where seem like peaceful and owns the beautiful sceneries might be trustworthy.

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Thanksgiving Day has come. It is the time that BPOVIA should express their gratitude and thanks to our honored clients and website visitors. Without your support, we may not accomplish so much in the last year; without your unreserved trust, we may not be lucky enough to be nominated as the Finalists for the “Red Herring 100 Asia” Awards 2008. BPOVIA is the first virtual assistant service provider in the world to ever be nominated for this prestigious award.

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